I love holiday. I love vacation and Christmas break, but oh, I so welcome back the routine. We woke up this morning, went to prayer. I came home and got to thinking/writing, moving my work into the living room and building a fire. It’s not that cold here. Okay, it’s not cold at all, but the day was grey and …

Tony taught out of 2 Peter 1: 3 – 12 yesterday. He did what he does so well, open up the scripture so we see there’s more to this life. What stood out to Tony was diligence. How we need to be diligent to pursue Him. What stood out to me was moral excellence. We are called to moral excellence. …

When in doubt, go to the scriptures. We have so many moral delimmas today, so many failures and questions. In doing so, we’ve lowered the spiritual bar and given up on being diligent and morally excellent. Worse, as part of the Beloved, we’ve lowered the bar and expectation on who and what we can be in Christ.

(Me with my niece, Soozie.) Standing in the Publix produce section today, I picked out a few naval oranges. I love oranges and actually prefer them over sweets most of the time. Yet while doing this, I realized in two days, the diet starts. “Religiously recording your Weight Watchers points,” Tony reminds me. Not that he’s hassling me about losing …

I found this picture of my Dad and niece today while not-writing. I did get over 2,500 written today, and may write a few more before bed. Tony and I took time out to watch our last Christmas movie rental, Firewall. Not so good. We were so aggrivated in the opening scenes when Harrison Ford’s character and his family are …

We decided to start walking Pal, our Beagle-mutt, angel spotting dog. One, he’d love the exercise and two, his claws needed trimming. Trying to clip them leaves us shredded, so it’s out to grind them on the pavement. Pal pulls on his leash the entire time, yerking on the arm of whoever’s holding the leash. It’s like he thinks we’re …

I love this lyric, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!” Even though it’s 80 degrees. Tony and I are watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” with Elizabeth White. And, I still have Tony’s presents to wrap. Merry Christmas everyone. And in the New Year…. just believe!

Call me weird, but I think my dog sees angels. Really. Like today. He comes into my office and immediately scoots around behind my chair like he’s hiding from something. He cowers in the corner, then tries to climb in my lap. The whole time, his eyes are darting back and forth. And if possible, he has a weird look …

Ever have one of those days where you just feel beige? I do. Like today. But it’s Christmas! Right? But I’m writing a first draft and always, always, always feel beige in the middle of writing a first draft. I’m reminded of my favorite Apostle Paul verse. “If you compare yourself to others, you’re stupid.” Ah, thanks for the straight-talk, …

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